Gilford 'struggles with medical terms'

Zach Gilford has revealed that he struggles with the medical jargon on his new show Off The Map.

Speaking to the New York Post, Gilford joked that he should be more thorough when he is learning his scripts.

"I'm pretty awful at [the medical jargon]," he said. "But I think a lot of that is my own fault because I don't spend a lot of time memorising my lines. I'm sure if I put in more effort I could get a lot of those lines. I just like to show up and ask, 'What's that word? How do you pronounce it?'"

Gilford also revealed that he believes his struggles with the language influenced the writers when they were creating his character.

"It's funny, I was spacing out in our first read-through, not realizing my line was coming up, and when I did I mispronounced a really simple medical term," he said. "So the writers must have thought, 'This kid is not going to be able to handle any words - let's give him all the easy stuff'. So a lot of the doctoring stuff I've done on the show has been working with kids or people who don't speak English. It's like medicine through charades."